Daily
news - 22nd November 2018

This report considers the impact of smoking in the home and what policy measures could be taken across all housing tenures reduce its prevalence, with the aim of protecting children and adults and supporting healthy communities | ASH, UK

Alcohol-related hospital statistics (ARHS) provide an annual update to figures on the alcohol-related inpatient and day case activity taking place within general acute hospitals and psychiatric hospitals in Scotland | ISD Scotalnd, UK

Following the letter issued on the 31st of October 2018, this supplementary letter provides further guidance to clinicians and organisations following the re-scheduling of cannabis-based products for medicinal use on November 1st 2018. | DHSS et al, UK

Since 2012, Revolving Doors has been working with the Police and Crime Commissioners across the country to improve the experience of young adults and those in the revolving door of personal crisis and crime. We’ll be hearing from five PCCs from across the country who are demonstrating what can be achieved when agencies and individuals with relevant skills work together | Revolving Doors, UK

The Gambling Commission has said stronger partnerships are needed to protect children following a new report. The gambling regulator has called for regulators and businesses across industries to work together, but the research also shows the important influence parents can have on children’s gambling behaviour | Gambling Commission, UK

Review commissioned by the American Psychological Association suggests patients who expect the best from psychotherapy are more likely to get it. Therapists should regularly assess expectations and take steps to enhance them if needed | Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK

Europe continues to have the highest levels of alcohol consumption in the world, resulting in the highest share of all deaths attributable to alcohol consumption. These indicators and alcohol policy responses in the 28 European Union (EU) Member States, Norway and Switzerland in 2016 were analysed and compared with the situation in 2010 | WHO, Denmark

Have you ever noticed how quiet a cold morning feels? Something about the coldness works its way into the sound of things. Birds get scarce, critters act cautious, cars drive slower—like there’s an unspoken agreement not to rupture the silence | Filter Magazine, USA

“For years, the idea of a safe consumption space captivated the imagination of drug users everywhere,” says Isaac Jackson, president of the San Francisco chapter of the Urban Survivors Union. “It was like the promised land | Filter Magazine, USA

Sexual consent is an important, complex and often awkward topic to talk about. And when people have been consuming alcohol or other drugs, it makes negotiating sexual consent even more complicated. Indeed, drawing the line between consensual sex and assault when a complainant is heavily intoxicated is a particularly difficult area of law | Conversation, UK

I agree with Stevens regarding the position that people wanting to use cannabis for their health now find themselves in, essentially forced to break the law as the new access to cannabis products process is overly cautious | BMJ Rapid Response, UK

Narcos is back on Netflix, set in Mexico this time, with a cool, world-weary, manly voiceover swearily lecturing us at the beginning that if we smoked sensemilla in the 1970s, then we were partly responsible for the bloody, endless drug wars that went on to kill more than half a million people | Spectator, UK

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